Years ago I wrote an application which was essentially a neural circuit of a sea slug (they only eat and forage) with my now wife.

https://austingwalters.com/modeling-and-building-robotic-sea...

We then showed how (using netlogo) how when another neural circuit for aggressive behavior was added (but the connections of the markov chain had yet to be trained) the sea slugs. After adding the aggressive circuit and letting generations live and die using a genetic algorithm - it appeared to observers like the animals became social. I.e. only the territorial sea slugs remained, and they wouldn’t attack ones of the same species, this proved to be the best for “survival”.

The goal of the work was to provide insight into what neural circuits can lead to social behavior. Specifically, what environmental conditions can lead to an evolutionary trait that triggers social like behaviors.

Honestly, idk if you can make any “claims”, but it was a fun undergraduate project. The best part is we exported the trained models from the Netlogo program, then imported them into a lego robot. At which point our robot had learned to be aggressive - I.e. would “chase” people away from the food source.